Hawk | The #1 Payment Screening Solution

Product Highlights Reduce friction for good customers without letting a sanctioned payment through

Real time screening

Screen every transaction instantly (150 ms avg.) across all payment rails with Hawks’ rail-agnostic API

Fine-grain fuzzy matching

Catch sanctioned entities with precision, screening any payment field with custom weighting, rule-by-rule

Past decision recall

Don’t review unchanged hits twice—remember past analyst decisions so alerts are only generated when entity or list data changes

Efficient payment screening Comply effortlessly at scale

Scale your volumes without compromising on compliance by providing your organization with the tools to pinpoint sanctions hits efficiently.

Transaction screening at scale
Coverage for any payment rail, through one API
Integration with global sanctions lists
Easy list management with ability to create dynamic, tailored sublists
Payment interdiction
Self-serve fuzzy matching configuration and tuning
Click-of-a-button hit dispositioning
Automated audit trail
Production sandbox testing

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The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient payment screening

The Traditional Way

Payments blocked unnecessarily
Generic algorithm, not purpose-built with transaction screening in mind
Slow processing and poor scalability
Costly maintenance with individually mapped connections to each payment rail
One-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t reflect local regulations
Hardcoded rules, managed by vendor support team
Outdated user interface requiring many clicks and one-hit-at-a-time reviews

The Hawk Way

Friction-right controls with low false positives
Proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm with granular, rule-specific tuning settings
150 ms avg. response time at scale
Smooth maintenance thanks to uniform payment rail mapping via single API
Multi-tenant structure that supports multiple regional regulations
Self-serve model configuration and sandbox testing
Simplified, unified view of all sanctions hits

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Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward

Learn how Hawk's AI-fueled technology is driving the future of AML & CFT, according to software analysts and industry experts.

Forrester Wave Hawk Named a Strong Performer in Anti-Money Laundering Solutions Evaluation

Hawk has been recognized as a Strong Performer by Forrester in its new report “The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money-Laundering Solutions, Q2 2025”. In the report, Forrester stated; “Hawk’s innovation is ahead of the competition.”

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Use cases

All bases, covered

Comply with every sanction and restriction in real time

Sanctions

Prevent sanctioned individuals, entities, and sectors from using your services with automated third-party sanctions lists updates.

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Embargos

Halt transactions with embargoed countries with geolocation transaction blocking and country-specific rules with country rules.

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Dual-Use Goods

Stop payments for controlled goods by monitoring for risky words in transaction fields.

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Whitepaper

Agentic AI: A Practical Guide for Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Leaders

How is agentic AI changing the way that financial crime and compliance teams work? Our latest whitepaper provides you with 50 pages of insight on the best use cases for agentic AI, covering: